What excites you about the beginning of the Spring Bear Hunt in Saskatchewan? For Ed and Faryn Anderson of Otter Creek Outfitters it is the anticipation of the bears.
1. We have lots of bears! and lots of big bears. Its going to be an exciting season.
2. We are running 42 baits.
3. First Bait was put up March 13th.
4. Bears started to wake up around April 10th.
We are baiting daily. All baits have been hit and bears are eating lots. We have quite a few big ones (see below).
There's a lot to get excited about and certainly the bears are the feature attraction. Next to the bears, we eagerly await the arrival of our first set of hunters. They are the focus of our next 5 weeks, putting the hunters in position to have a successful hunt. With our early trail cam pics, we know the bears are there and coming to the bait sites. Putting the hunters in the stands is when the season preparation, the careful choices of stand sites, the positioning of the bait barrels, weeks of feeding the bears, and countless miles slogging through the late-winter and early spring bush, ice, mud, snow, and dust turns into payoff!
Check some of our favorite pre-season trail camera black bears. You can see more trail cam pics on the Black Bear Hunt page.
